Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 27, 1911, Page 4

THE BEM'IDJ'I DAILY PIONEER Publlshed every afternoon except Sun- day by the Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Company. @. E. CARSON. E. H. DENU. F. A. WILSON, Editor. In the City of Bemidji the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery is irregular please make immediate complaint to this office. Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor if they will report when they do not get their papers promptly. papers are continued unm an ex- Qlicn. order to discontinue is received, and until arrearages are paid. Subscription Rates. One month, by carrier. .. One year, by carrier ‘Three months, postage Six Months, postage pai One year, postage paid ‘The Weekly Pioneer. Eight pages, containing a summary of the news of the week. Published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for $1.50 in advance. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MA.T TER_AT THE POSTOFFICE AT MIDJI, MINN UNDER THE ACT OF‘ MARCH 3, 1879. POV OOOOORO0D GO THIS DATE IN HISTORY. October 27. 1682—William Penn, with 100 immigrants, first landed at Newcastle. 1795—The United States and Spain concluded a treaty defining the Louisiana boundary. 1800—Benjamin F. Wade, Mas- sachusetts statesman, born. Died March 2, 1878. 1811—Isaac M. Singer, sewing machine invenior, born in Oswego, N. Y. Died in England, July 23, 1875. 1856—Opening of railway com- munication between To- ronto and Montreal. 1858—Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the U. 8., born in New York city. 1864—The Confederate ram “Albemarle” destroyed by a torpedo. 1870—The French surrendered Metz to the Germans. 1904—New York subway open- & ed to traffic. 4 L R R R R R IR OR Y COPPOPRPPPOPVICOPOVOOOOGOOO®OPOOLOSGOS® POPOPPOPOVVVOVPOOVVOVVPOOOOOOO OO NOW COMES DAN O’NEILL. ‘Whatever else may be said of an Irishman, you can not truthfully call him a coward. Therefore, when an American of Celtric origin has anything to say, 1 he usually says it. Well meaning but weak kneed cit- izens will find glorious iuspiration in the plain talk given the Pioneer read- ers by Representative D. P. O’Neill of Thief River Falls in this issue of the Pioneer. Dan doesn’t mumble his words. “We do nced an extra session,” he says, “and we need it this winter,” “There can be no doubt about the words used by the governor at Brain- ‘erd and I for one believe he will do Jjust what he said.” Pretty plain talking; nretty sen- sible talking, don’t you think. It is hard to tell just which is Mr. O’Neill’s most telling point, but one that is worthy of more than passing note is his defense of the southern members of the legislature. The Thief River man once lived in the south himself and didn’t find anything there that caused his soul to warp into a selfish, unpatriotic creature. Nor are the men of the south that sort of people. They are fair and they will do just what O’Neill says that they will do —give the North a square deal. Of the political sidelights raised by Mr. O'Neill, his discussion of the good roads propaganda 1s especially timely and his reply to F.obert Dunn worthy of close study. ON HANDLING FIREARMS. There has been much said in St. Louis of late about the Boy Scouts in America that it is interesting to come across some of the rules iaid down in a new book by Ernest Thompson Se- ton, Boy Scouts of America. Here are some of the rules referred to: No one under the age of 14 years should be allowed the use of a gun or pistol. The didn’t-know-it-was-ioaded fool is the cause of more sorrow than the For any scout to point a firearm at If he didn’t know deliberate murderer. J any one is a crime. it was loaded he should be still more severely punished. Never carry a gun [ull-cock or hammer down. The half-cock is made for safety. Use it. Never pull a gun by the muzzle. Never shoot at anything about which you are in doubt. It is not to be inferred from a per- usal of these rules, that the Boy Scouts are taught nothinz except the proper care of firearms. That is only 5 jan incidental part of their teaching. 8 On the whole, they are simply taught to do, sensibly and properly, those things which real men ought to know how to do—when they get outside the boundaries of the city—and away from their homes. Countless accidents are reported every year in the United States—as a result of the inefficient training of youth. It seems very well worth while for Mr. Seton to have written his instructions to the scouts. His book, and the instructions he gives, will do a great deal of good—if worthy people will not insist upon misunderstanding the author and his book. PROOVPPPVPOPOPOPODPO®O® © What Other Papers Say. ¢ RO R R R R R R R RO R CRORORC “Can” It Be Possible? It certainly takes more tin to buy canned goods now than it did a year ago.—Walker Pilot. Beltrami Raises Some Fotatoes. . Up in Beltrami county they’re claiming 600 bushels of potatoes to the acre. This sure is a great pota- to country. See Success for Steenerson. Former State Senator F. H. Peter- son of Moorhead, intends to be a can- didate for congress against Halvor | Suits, merry clip. Get THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Steenerson, according to a Moorhead report. Blow the smoke away, it is somewhat blinding—we predict the congressman can see his way out of it with a good majority.—Barnesville Record-Herald. Mere He Is. The Bemidji Sentinel wants to know where Harold Knutson is now located. Well Brother Rutledge, the last seen of the erstwhile editor of the Foley Independent, was around the St. Cloud Journal-Press office writing up the local stories—and no doubt trying to ring into Alvah’s edi- torial columns some of his progres- sive stuff.—Little Falls Herald. Aviator Robinson “Uppish.” The only criticism we have to of- fer concerning Aviator Robinson is that he is uppish, he is a high flyer and talks over the heads of people. In fact he looks down on almost ev- erybody. When ordinary folks are in serious conversation he is “up in the air.” The man travels in the clouds! If all this leads one to think that he is proud he must be careful for “pride goeth before a fall.”—Anoka Herald. | Warehouse Paramount Issue. “We do not claim to be much of a politician, and may not be sufficient- ly impressed with the importance of the most modern political propagan- da. But we certainly believe that a potato warehouse within wagon dis- tance of every farm in northwestern Minnesota would be worth a thous- andfold ‘more to the peovle than if they had the initiative, referendum and recall all three handed to them done in choicest art characters in richest vellum.”—Duluth News Tri- bune. . The Reason for Woman Suffrage. Pretty nearly everybody seems to have missed the real reason for giv-| ing women the right to vote. It isn’t that it is going to make women bet- ter if they vote; though it will make them better citizens. It isu’t that it} is going to improve conditions in this country to let women vote, though it will improve conditions. A brief study of the character of much of the opposition to woman suffrage proves that conclusively enough. But the real reason why women should be allowed to vote is that there should be no discrimination as to the privilege of the bhallot in a free government. There should be no discrimination of class. There should be no discrim- ination of sex. It isn’t really a free government so long as there is dis- crimination, whether it is of class or sex.—Duluth Evening Herald. On the Right Track. The Bemidji Pioneer wants a spec- ial session of the legislature for the sake of reapportionment. That is of great importance, but we wish as much attention were paid to the quality of the men sent as to the number. We have had too much of a certain kind. The Pioneer is on the right track, however.—Little Falls Herald. Bob Dunn Becomes Cantankerous. Vincent has been crowned king of the state university amid all the {pomp and splendor of medieval times. Costumes of imitation gold and silver cloth and helmets of polished tin were largely in° evidence, and the |brave cavaliers who usually guard Governor Eberhart upon such occa- sions were conspicuous in the proces- sion as they endeavored to control their spindleshanks and fatted calves —to keep them moving 1n time with the military march played by ‘the iband. The governor was also there but preferred to keep at a distance from his cavaliers, who were com- manded by a capitol janitor who iserved in the civil war and was made a temporary officer for the occasion. The governor, seemingly, did not want to be held responsible for the bad breaks which his cavaliers in- variably make when called upon to perform military duty. While the pageant entailed great expense, the|™ state of Minnesota must keep up its reputation along these lines—its uni- versity kings must be crowned in a befitting manner.—Princeton Union. AN ANCIENT LEGEND. Creation of the Cocoanut, the Wakwak and the Palm Tree. According to the opinion of the old historians and the commentators of the Koran. God created from the re- mainder of the clay of which Adam was made the kullseer, or cocoa tree. which is found in abundance in the Indian islands. It produces a nut which is brought to Anatolia and Roomili. The interior and oily part is nourishing and fortifying food. The shell is worked into spoons and cups of the size of a man’s head. It is a round black nut on which all the parts of a man’s head may be seen— mouth. nose, eyebrows. eyes, hair and whiskers—before it was formed from Adam’s clay. A wonderful sight! From the same clay God created also the wakwak, found in India, the fruit of which resembles a man’'s head. which, shaken by the wind, emits the sound of wakwak. Finally was created also the palm tree from the remainder of Adam’s clay at Kufa, near the water Tinnoor. This is said to be the reason why the palm trees of Kufa, Medain and Om- waun are straight and upright. like the stature of a man. If you cut its branches it does not only no harm to it. but grows even more, like the hair and beard of men, but if you cut off the head of the palm tree it gives a reddish juice like blood, and the tree perishes like a man whose head is cut off.—Evlia Effendi, “Travels.” Lying In Wait. “I've been sent down town to buy a taboret. What's that?” “Don't you know? It's one of those things rhat stand around about shin high in the dark.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer Property has its duties as well as its rightr.—Drummond. Not a Thing Reserved Overcoats, Shoes, Caps, Underwear, And Furnishings busy. were not plentiful. Come Early and Follow the Crowd MODEL CLOTHING STORE 212 Third Street It's up to you. Are all being sacrificed regardless of original cost. has been cut to less than the Cost of Manufacture. The Big Day To-morrow Plans have been perfected during the past few days whereby Saturday’s new introduc- tion of prices will mean hundreds of dollars in saving to the public. the price cutting has reached a climax. and better than when the sale opened. additional values for youself. The reason for this big sale has been etated many times---and we say it again Going Out Of Business This is a bonefide closing out sale and this high gra}de stock must be disposed of at a If you don’t profit by it it’s not because the bargains Sweaters, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1911, TYPEWRITERS IN CHINA. They Are Used There, but Not For the Native Language. Typewriters are now made for use in nearly a hundred different languages, and they are sold all over the world, but there is still one great nation which, for a very simple reason, has no typewriters that write its tongue. That nation is China. The English alphabet has twenty-six' letters, the Russian thirty-six. The| typewriter produced for the Russian market is the largest made, but no typewriter could be made that would| begin to be big enough for the Chinese language, which has no alphabet, but is represented by sign characters, of| which there are zbout 50,000. Of the| great number of words found in thel English language only a small propor- tion are used for the ordinary purposes of speech, and the same would be true, as to the characters used in the Chi- nese language, but the number of Chi- nese characters commonly employed is| still far greater than could be put on any typewriter. So this nation of 400,-] 000,000 people has no typewriter in its| own tongue. But that doesn’t mean that no type-| writers are sold in China. More and| more Chinese are learning other lan- Zuages besides their own, and Chinese, merchants and resident foreign mer- chants use typewriters, and they are used in legations and in consular of-| fices and in banks and shxgpi.ug o@m and colleges and by mi 1onarles. by various people. Altoge? er there are] sold in China a good many typewrit-| ers.—Washington Post. Importance Recognizea. *Do you think that man fully appre- ciates the importance of the office to: which we have elected him?” said one constituent. “I guess he does,” replied the other. “The first thing he did was to say it ought to command a larger salary.”— Washington Star. Bean Ballots, Greeks and Romans of the ancient world invariably used white and black beans for voting at trials, the white bean signifying acquittal and the black one conviction. I s v T e =] THE MODEL CLOTHING SALE STILL ON The stupendous Bargains that have sastisfied the throngs during the past two . weeks have been renewed with double energy. Everything has been re-arranged and the “Knife of Profit” has again slashed the prices to a rediculously low level. Remember Everything Must Go i Shirts In many cases the retail sale price From all indications Now is the time to buy. The Bargains are bigger If you have already bought come again and see the Bemidji, Minn. . 9 1 ] o i